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I’ve previously mentioned the existence of my honours thesis
(here, here and here) and the possibility that I might place it in the eternal
cloud known as the internet. Well I've finally gotten around to doing just that and you can find Discerning Knowers: An Exploratory Study of University Students’
Perceptions of Knowledge Claims:here. To get an idea of what it's all about, the abstract is as follows: The thesis is centred on how University students perceive the legitimacy
of knowledge claims. Contemporary sociological theory is often
concerned with the transformations associated with the emergent
“knowledge economy” and “knowledge society”. In view of this, University
students’ perception of knowledge claims is of practical concern due to
their future role as knowledge-workers and potential members of the
power elite. To address these issues, elements of Social Realism, Legitimation Code Theory and Systemic Functional Linguistics have been
drawn on to conceptualize…